Monday Stuff

This laughable nonsense with Tweety occurred in January, and David Waldman at The Daily Kos (who has forgotten more on HCR than Matthews will ever know) tells us why the "Hardball" host owes Congressman Alan Grayson, and everyone else, an apology here...

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...and I guess it would've been more than a little awkward if Biden had blurted out "Barack, I AM YOUR FATHER!" (though Obama can now say to the Repugs, on this issue anyway, "who's your daddy"...ha ha)...



...and even though the returning K.O. tonight is willing to offer an olive branch of sorts to those opposing health care reform, I am of a mind to do no such thing; as Brad De Long so correctly put it here, we need to "punish the Republican Party for gridlock: destroy it utterly, so that no politician for a thousand years will think that betraying his oath to serve the country to create pointless gridlock is the road to electoral success" - basically, to pay out the Repugs in coin they know of...

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...and in honor of the 80th birthday of lyricist Stephen Sondheim yesterday (more or less), I present what may be his signature tune from "A Little Night Music," and if the title doesn't fit the teabaggers, I don't know what does.